Officers pursuing a discrimination lawsuit against the New York City Police Department allege that commanders at the 122nd precinct improperly gamified law enforcement. They claim points were awarded for various accomplishments—such as one point for a misdemeanor arrest and one-and-a-half points for a felony arrest—and a minimum number of points were required to earn vacation and overtime, avoid certain duties, or even qualify for promotion.

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Gamification, which is really scorification, sometimes works, sometimes doesn’t. Here it would
encourage officers to make unfair arrests (in order to score points), and emphasized the ass-end
of policing, which is pursuit after the crime. The best police create an atmosphere where crime is
less likely to happen, and where it will be reported by citizens. I hope they win this suit.